[R] Use a text variable's value to specify another varaible?

[Erik Iverson]

Can I ask why you aren't just passing in the object to your function, 
but instead a text name for that object?

Ben Fairbank wrote:
> Greetings guRus --
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> If a variable, e.g., 'varname', is a character string, e.g. varname <-
> "datavector", and I want to apply a function, such as table(), to
> datavector, what syntax or method will do so using only the variable
> varname?  This seems similar to indirect addressing, but I have not seen
> a method for it in the R manuals.  Is there a general name for such
> indirect reference that one might search for?
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> (This came up while writing a function that takes the value of 'varname'
> from the keyboard and then applies functions to it.)
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> With thanks for any solution,
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> Ben Fairbank
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